Cocaine Bear (2023)

Cocaine Bear is a film inspired by true events about various individuals getting maimed or killed by a drug-addicted bear.

Directed by the hit-or-miss director Elizabeth Banks. Don't get me wrong, I disliked 2019's Charlie's Angels heavily, but Pitch Perfect 2 was a movie I'll watch more than once. If I were her, I'd stick to what she was good at for acting like Brightburn, The Hunger Games, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and then make movies similar to those.

Half the film follows Alden Ehrenreich and O'Shea Jackson Jr. and their quest to find all of the cocaine in the forest for their criminal boss. My thoughts on Han Solo from Ehrenreich have changed over the years of lackluster Star Wars films and tv. Jackson has only given me one bad performance and most people will recognize him from Straight Out of Compton. He did well here dealing with all the misfortune his character had throughout the film.

Keri Russel plays the other half of this adventure film where she looks to find her mischievous child and her best friend. Russel looks really good for her age and seems to play a character in her late twenties or early thirties despite being forty-six. While Russel was misused in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, she will always be Felicity to me.

The film delivers what the title suggests. Unfortunately, there was a young woman who wouldn't get off of TikTok in front of me. I doubt she watched twenty minutes of the film. I enjoyed the film, it's solid and doesn't have much downtime. Perhaps the support of numerous producers helped make this Banks' first good film, including Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and The Lego Movie. Regardless, good job Banks, don't lean into the victim too much and people might enjoy looking forward to your films.

Result: B

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